+ Affiliate Marketing Blog by Shawn Collins +

Affiliate marketing news and opinion from Shawn Collins, an affiliate marketer since 1997, co-founder of Affiliate Summit and author ...

Last Update: Tue Jun 10 00:33:51 2008

+ Your Picture in the Next FeedFront Magazine + Want to have your picture in the next FeedFront Magazine? We’ll be featuring a bunch of affiliate marketers in the next [...] (don’t worry, it’s removable), take a picture showing you and the sticker, and upload it to Flickr. Also, [...]

+ Google Video Alerts + Today my partner for Affiliate Summit, Missy Ward, forwarded me an email that was a Google Video Alert. I didn’t realize [...] to Trackur, which I mentioned last week. I was set up with the “Comprehensive” option from a while back, [...]

+ YouTube Enables Video Producers to Sell Own Ads + YouTube is going to start allowing content producers to sell ads for their videos, according to AdvertisingAge. Professional content [...] on their YouTube channels. That includes the click-to-expand overlays that run across the bottoms of YouTube videos and display [...]

+ Active Affiliates + Affiliate networks and merchants often speak in terms of total affiliates in a given network or affiliate program, but [...] the latest AffStat report, the majority of affiliates in a given affiliate program are inactive. It’s often said that [...]

+ Affiliate Deep Links + Q: I am promoting an affiliate product, and I have created a lead capture page that is just like the sales page of my merchant. The [...] how can I insert the purchase link into my lead capture page without having my visitors have to go through my affiliate [...]

+ Domain Parking vs. Affiliate Marketing + Q: Which is better for generating income, parking a domain or building a site with affiliate links? A: First off, I’d [...] the market for PPC ads for the niche of the domain, as well as the age and popularity of the domain. If it is a new domain that [...]

+ WordPress Affiliate Plugin from Foreclosure.com + The Foreclosure.com affiliate program just launched the WordPress Foreclosure Listings Plugin, which uses the proprietary [...] real estate search and navigation environment that queries the Foreclosure.com database in real-time. Some examples of the [...]

+ Affiliate Summit Mentor Program + Affiliate Summit is starting up a Mentor Program where Affiliate Summit veterans will team up with first timers to help them get the [...] headed up by affiliate Teresa Caldwell. Mentors will be asked to have a 15 minute call and/or email exchange leading up to [...]

+ Take an Affiliate Survey and Raise Money for Charity + Performance marketing agency NETexponent is launching an affiliate marketing research study conducted from the perspective of [...] affiliates crave Better understanding of who affiliates are and what challenges they face If you are an affiliate [...]

+ Affiliate Thing Podcast - June 4, 2008 + The June 4, 2008 episode of Affiliate Thing opened with talk about a dinner Lisa Picarille attended last week to discuss the formation [...] development where Overstock filed a lawsuit against the state of New York over the affiliate tax. Then, Lisa and I brought [...]